The gas giants outside our solar system are not capable of hosting extraterrestrial life, but do offer clues in a lingering mystery about how distant planets form, researchers said.

Using the radial velocity method, an international team of astronomers has discovered a new extrasolar planet orbiting a ...

The faraway exoplanet could help provide answers as to why there are hardly any planets with twice the diameter of Earth.

The new sub-neptune planet has been designated as GI 410 b. It weighs as much as the mass of 8.5 Earths. Making it one of the larger sub-Neptunes to be discovered. Following the detection, it was ...

"L 98-59 c could be the first planet smaller than 2 Earth radii with a definitively detected atmosphere," a team of ...

The HR 8799 system is located approximately 135 light-years from Earth and hosts four known exoplanets whose masses range from five to nine times of Jupiter, and the 51 Eridani system is located ...

TESS hunts for exoplanets by looking for a temporary decrease in a star's brightness, also known as the transit method. When a dip in brightness is observed, that suggests a planet has passed in ...